Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer : A Collection of Critical Essays. Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture ; Vol. 15.

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304 pp. A perfect copy. - Summary: Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal authors in the field of literary gerontology, while it also elaborates on important theories that age-critics have developed in the broader field of cultural gerontology, to present the experience of ageing, and old age in particular, as a creative phase of the life course that completes the older person s identity and, specifically, that of the older woman. As a contrast to stereotypical views of ageing women that are still sustained in both gerontological and social domains, the essays in this collection focus on the works of eleven women writers whose careers were or have been prolonged into their old age, and whose later literary creativity reveals fascinating aspects about both the complex, contradictory, and enriching experience of growing older, and especially of doing so as an artist and as a woman. - Contents: Introduction: Re-Discovering the Older Woman -- Part I: Women and Literary Creativity through the Lifespan -- "The only thing to do is to carry on, and the storm will blow over." The Aging Process of Daphne du Maurier's Writing-Persona in Her Late Short Fiction -- Mapping the Journey 'between One's Origins and One's Achievements': Joanna McClelland Glass' Dramaturgical Creativity -- Fictionalising Biography Throughout the Life-course: Creative Memory in Penelope Lively's Making It Up -- The Cooking of Friendships: Nora Ephron and the Life-Work of "Mediated Intimacy" -- Part II: Changing Perspectives in the Woman Writer's Late Literary Production -- A Brave Old Age: Changes in the Irish Family Trope in Jennifer Johnston's Later Fiction -- Erica Jong: From a Youthful Fear of Flying to a More Experienced Landing in Her Late Years -- "That's the Spirit!" Putting the Past to Rights in A.S. Byatt's Ragnarök. The End of the Gods (2011) -- Anne Tyler's Noah's Compass: Progress towards Wisdom -- Part III: Late-Style and the Older Woman Writer -- The Beginning of Lorna Crozier's Late-Style: A Thematic Change in the Symbol of Snow -- P.K. Page, Late-Style, and Gerotranscendence: The "Here/There" of Aging -- Wicked Weldon: The 'F Word' and the Older Woman. ISBN 9783034321990 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 428.

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Título

Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer : A Collection of Critical Essays. Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture ; Vol. 15.

Editor

Bern, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Warszasa, Wien: Peter Lang

Fecha de publicación

2016

Idioma

Inglés

ISBN 10

3034321996

ISBN 13

9783034321990

Encuadernación

Softcover, 22 cm.

Estado

Sehr gut

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• Gerontologie

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